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Animal rights victory

Ritchie | 27.01.2004 20:40 | Animal Liberation | Cambridge

As many of you have already heard, Cambridge University has announced
that they are not going ahead with the proposed primate laboratories
at 307 Huntingdon Road. This is fantastic news down to the collective
power of the animal rights movement. So a big thank you to one and
all who took part in achieving this victory!

Stunning victory for the animal rights movement.

As many of you have already heard, Cambridge University has announced
that they are not going ahead with the proposed primate laboratories
at 307 Huntingdon Road. This is fantastic news down to the collective
power of the animal rights movement. So a big thank you to one and
all who took part in achieving this victory!

Let there be no doubt about this, it was everyone who took part in
the grassroots campaign against it that won the final battle. The
university said that it was the cost of security that forced their
hand. To quote one of their spokespeople, “We are not able to build
and run Fort Knoxâ€.

But it was not just the spiralling of costs of the lab security (£24
million to £32 million). It was the threat, often put into action, of
constant protest at the entire University, and the negative impact we
were having on their donors worldwide. We hit them were they were
most vulnerable – their finances and left them with no choice.

SPEAC has always said that the government could say what they wanted,
but that if Cambridge University did not want to build these labs,
then they would not be built. Quite wonderfully, everyone who
contacted the University or took part in the demonstrations forced
their hands. They were warned what to expect if they took on the
animal rights movement, and they found out that we are people of our
word.

No doubt there will be future attempts to build labs elsewhere in the
country, but we will be there to fight them, tooth and nail. For now
though, celebrate that you helped stop thousands of primates of all
different species being taken from their homes and families in the
wild to suffer at the hands of sadistic and pointless science. We can
feel justly proud of our achievements, another in a long line of
animals abuse centres stopped in their tracks.

In the meantime an important message has been sent out to
universities across the United Kingdom not to get involved in such
research, for if mighty Cambridge can only put up a pathetic fight,
then they have no chance against us if we were to turn our attention
to them. Likewise, the scientists who wanted to abuse the primates
will have do some real research now using techniques which do not
torture loving, sentient creatures.

Again, thank you to all to took part.
We will be back!

Please feel free to forward this message on.

Stop Primate Experiments At Cambridge
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Ritchie
- Homepage: http://www.primateprison.org

Comments

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Great!

27.01.2004 20:56

wikked, now the labs will be built overseas! The UK has some of the strictest laws on keeping animals for scientific experimentation, if the lab is built elsewhere in Europe there will likely be far more suffering for the animals involved.

Why is it that animal rights activists put such a diproportionate amount of effort in to fighting medical research, when, of all the industries that exploit animals, this involves the least number of animals and the least overall suffering and provides by far the greatest benefit for society through advances in clinical and vetinary medicine. Compare this to the intensive farming industry which on a weekly basis involves ecessive suffering to millions of animals simply to satisfy the nation's taste for flesh.

What benefits to society come from keeping millions of creatures in darkened cages for their entire lives so that they can be eaten?

steve


They got what they deserved

27.01.2004 22:19


Steve, your full of shit to! We'd put your pic next to these 3 scumbags if we could ..

Viva la revolution!

ARCrew


thanks

27.01.2004 23:01

Thanks for enlighteneing me with your reasoned argument.

steve


steven, steven, ... whoever you are

27.01.2004 23:42

Yes steve, that 'may' be right but there are plenty of animal rights activists overseas to see to it that these shits daren't even think about creating another Belsen for animals elsewhere.

You've posted the same negative crap elsewhere on IMC today. Check your posts.

Ok, your correct about intensive farming killing millions more animals than those dying in the labs which is why most AR people are vegan/vegetarian so as not to contribute to or demand the continuation of suffering on such a scale (or any scale) as that which the farming industry deals out to the innocent. Animal lib people are constantly trying to change the publics mind where flesh and dairy consumption are concerned, through demos and information distribution.

You seem to be pro vivisection whilst anti-meat eating - intensive farming? We don't get it?? Does your compassion not span the scale of all animal suffering? Or do your 'tactics' just seek a diversion from our victory? Something has rattled your cage ... Do you actually feel ok steven?

Anyway, just be happy that thousands of primates are not going to die pointlessly, suffering disgusting brain research into diseases they do not naturally suffer from in their own lifetimes and also, that thousands of humans will not be dying from taking those drugs that the vivisectors have given the ok to (for their own profit gain) even though the primate brain and the homosapien brain are still so very different.

Respect all life steven, and it may respect you.

ARCrew


congrats

28.01.2004 00:32

Just a quick WELL DONE to anyone who played a part in this inspiring victory.

Inspiring, to me, because it shows that even the most seemingly large and powerful institutions CAN be defeated.

Thank you. Having just recently come out of an action that ended disappointingly and felt like a defeat, you have lifted my spirits a little :)

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one track minds

28.01.2004 08:21

It's just that medical research on animals does actually have some benefits, intensive farming. I do find it pretty abhorent, and a lot of it is unescessary BUT I see no alternative in many instances, other than giving up medical and vetinary research in certain areas and letting much greater numbers of humans and animals suffer than those that are involved in the experiments. I think that GIVEN the benefits that arise from the research the protesters would be better employed elsewhere. When was the last time a 1000 people marched to shut down a pork factory farm? Does such a farm not have a much higher ratio of suffering/reward?

steve


name one

28.01.2004 13:15

disease that has been cured by animal testing... And back it up with references.

It is not as simple as going and demonstrating outside a pork farm. If you close a pork farm, another will open or expand. What need's changing is the people's outlook of meat.

Going on a demonstration against a proposed primate lab shows the anger that people feel that such an evil plan was made. This does have an effect.

I feel that i know who you are steve. You are just like any other apologetic vivisectionist. Vivisection is not needed. You have obviously not been reading the background to SPEAC's arguments.

This is a great day!

fredrico
mail e-mail: musteatvegan@yahoo.co.uk


Steve

28.01.2004 14:18

Actually some factory farms have been closed down by protesters, ie a couple exposed by VIVA's "Pig in Hell" campaign. There are many groups working to end factory farming, and they have had numerous successes ie banning the sow stall, banning veal crates, banning battery cages (will come into force in a few years), stopping supermarkets from buying meat from debeaked ducks, vastly increasing the numbers of vegetarians/vegans in the country . . . Last week numerous groups protested outside branches of Tesco to inform the public about their disgraceful pig farms. (
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/01/283427.html
) It's just that the anti-vivisection groups get more press coverage!

Ron


Choosing targets

29.01.2004 14:30

It is true that the suffering caused my the meat industry far outweighs hunting or vivisection but whilst we campaign against vivisection (which by the way Steve has never helped a single human being - please read Ray Greek) we also promote animal rights. We promote the ideas that animals are not "ours" to eat, perform, etc. Subsequently we are fighting the whole oppression in one. I went vegan through getting involved in anti bloodsports campaigning.

The joke of people like Steve is that these people never do anything to change the world they just criticise others.

For liberation,
Ritchie

Ritchie


Ray Greek and vivisection

30.01.2004 10:04

"(which by the way Steve has never helped a single human being - please read Ray Greek)"

Actually, Ray Greek's argument is not that simple. The main thrust of Ray's argument is that results on animals cannot be extrapolated directly to humans because of the mydiad difffernces at the cellular and molecular level. Animals therefore cannot be relied upon to test drugs, toxins or treatments for disease.

However, Ray admits that animals can be used to understand basic biological processes and these can be extrapolated to any biological system. Vivisection experiments may in this way have contributed towards discoveries that eventually benefited humans.

Even when simply considering animals used for basic research, it does not follow logically that because discovery was helped by animal experimentation, that vivisection was essential to the discovery. The same discovery may have been made through less intrusive experiments, or the same funding could have saved more lives if used in a different way. I have provided examples and a more detailed explanation of this argument in a conference paper I wrote for a vivisectors' conference in Christchurch  http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~nezumi1/ANZCCART.html

Michael
- Homepage: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~nezumi1